DELIGHTED SAILORS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 7

DELIGHTED SAILORS

INTEfINMEftt FEAR GONE

GERMAN GREW AT UHTELTON

Jubilation and relief, which they unsuccessfully strove to conceal, were shown by the officers of the German steamer Dessau at Lyttelton when the news that an agreement had been signed at Munich came through from. Daventry on Friday, states the Christ* church '"Press." A reporter who boarded the steamer <fu*t as the news was coming through, met a young officer racing, across the deck, evidently to communicate the news to the engineers below. "Have you heard the news?** he asked the reporter. The reporter said he had. "It Is all over," said the officer, grinning delightedly as he hurried below. In a cabin the reporter found three -young officers listening intently to the news bulletin from Daventry. A request that he be allowed to photograph them met with smiling assent. They talked rather excitedly am he set his camera up, frequently breaking into English for his benefit "Goad news?* queried the reporter. 'Too right!" came the rather startling reply in the vernacular. " As was to be expected, the crisis in Sotrope has been of absorbing interest to the officers of the Dessau, and they took every opportunity of listening; both to the rebroadcasts from Daventry and to the German short-wave stations. They told how they had all risen early in the morning to hear th# Fuhrer's broadcast speech from Qer* many. Newspapers, too, were eagerly purchased each morning. The prospect of being interned so far away from their homeland was not an inviting one, although the impression was gathered that they considered New Zealand quite a good country in which to spend an enforced holilday.